Year: 2005

On this Patriot’s Day, April 19, 2005. The Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s…

You’re about to get screwed again. This time, you’re going to help finance college educations for illegal aliens–at least if some of our legislators get…

(From The Federalist Patriot) The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin Sound familiar?

However, there’s a problem with doing so. When you start reading Vox Popoli regularly, you start spending an inordinate amount of time researching some of…

Vox Popoli has some excellent advice for those with a marriage in trouble. And for those of you who want to say it isn’t true,…

Going to do some catch-up blogging. Keep reading.

You know it’s officially Spring at The Freehold when we have the “Ritual Untarping of the Camper“. For a change, it was accomplished with no…

Me bud Rob, at The Blog and Nothing But the Blog, has an excellent reminisce about his grandfather and air travel in “the good old…

Along the lines of “An armed society is a polite society”, Florida has recently enacted a “stand your ground” self defense law. No longer are…

The saga of the Man Room (parts 1 and 2) was completed over the weekend. Well, close enough, anyway. The furniture is set back up,…

OK, so I should have taken two weeks off to paint the Man Room. Welcome to My Life, as Bill Engvald says. So when last…

(Blogging a local event for a change) It looks like the “vigilantes” and “extremists” (gr-r-r) aren’t just watching the New Mexico and Arizona borders: Passengers…

For the last 12 years, I’ve lived in a house that I lovingly characterize as “This Old House Meets The Twilight Zone”. A house where…

(Via The Travel Insider) I used to fly a fair amount on commercial airlines. I wasn’t what we would now call a “frequent flyer”, but…

(Via Likelihood of Confusion) It’s always very easy for a blogger to get caught up in the moment and write something that perhaps shouldn’t have…

“is a polite society.” So sayeth Robert A. Heinlein. And today in the National Review Online, John Lott gives us the scientific numbers to back…

March 19 saw yours truly venturing to the Hickory, NC Gun and Knife (and junk, as usual) show, meeting up with some old friends and…

(Via Wolfesblog and other sources) It would seem that Officer Friendly has beensuspended from his position as an undercover officer for the Drug Enforcement Administration.…

Science Fiction/Fantasy author Andre Norton died today at age 93 at her Tennessee home. (CNN has another story, also worth the time.) Along with Robert…

Last night I brought you the only man in the room professional enough to have a gun. Tonight, we do a local blog post bringing…

DiscoveringForgotten NY. I stumbled across this site, oh, maybe two years ago. I’d forgotten about it since then, but stumbled across it tonight. It’s obviously…

Here’s Officer Friendly giving a class the “evil gun” lecture. I wonder if he’ll get expelled for bringing a gun to school?

(Via The High Road) I got 7 of 10. And I was lucky.

Or perhaps they need to be blasted–out. I finally went to the doctor last week, was sent to the specialist, who prescribed antibiotics. Works for…

(Via The Federalist Patriot) If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,…

Now here’s something that you can sink your teeth into: Blackfive has a long, but excellent post of an After Action Report (AAR) from our…

Sorry for not posting more lately. I could plead that I’ve been doing real-world things, which is true, but that really isn’t the problem. I…

(Via WorldNet Daily) (Background here and here.) According to The New York Daily News, Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano’s Article 32 hearing (roughly the military…

Other than it sounds about right. I am 67% Asshole/Bitch. I am abrasive, some people really hate me, but there may be a group of…

(Via The Register) Jeff Raskin, the father of the Apple Macintosh, died Saturday. Whether you like the Mac, love the Mac, hate the Mac or…